Mondrian, Pollock

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Mondrian, Pollock Zen Gardens When Art and
Science Meet

• Dan Graur

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Logic
Ethics
Esthetics
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Nature
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Pat York. 1998. Face, Los Angeles
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Pat York. 1998. Skull, Profile, Los Angeles
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Pat York. 1998. Skull, spinal cord and nervous
system, Los Angeles
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As part of a Morning Edition series exploring
the intersection of art and science, NPR's
Richard Harris reports on the beauty of
mathematics, its ties to art -- and the man who
straddles both worlds.
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Professor of Mathematics and Tabla Drummer
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Art and Science Timeline of an Uneasy
Relationship
Art Science
Art ? Science
S Art, Science
Time
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Non mi legga chi non e matematico.(Let no one
read me who is not a mathematician.)
Leonardo da Vinci
Vitruvian man
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Mathematics and Music
Music should be judged intellectually through
numbers, rather than sensibly, through the
ear. Pythagoras Music is the greatest of all
sciences. Johann Sebastain Bach
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Quadrivium (post trivium) curriculum

• Arithmetic numbers pure
• Geometry numbers at rest
• Astronomy numbers in motion
• Music numbers applied

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DNA music
Susumu Ohno
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Repetitive sequences in Drosophila simulans
5'-ACAAACT-3' 107 5'-ATAAACT-3' 2 ?
106 5'-ACAAATT-3' 3 ? 106
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From DNA to music, the translation is
ambiguous From music to DNA, the translation is
unambiguous
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Susumu Ohno Marty Jabara. 1986. Repeats of base
oligomers (N 3n 1 or 2) as immortal coding
sequences of the primeval world Construction of
coding sequences is based upon the principle of
musical composition. Chemica Scripta 26B43-49.
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Mouse immunoglobulin g (IgG) variable region of
the heavy chain (VH) with an anti-4-hydroxy-3-nitr
ophenylacetyl (NPb) specificity
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Yonatan Cohen
Mouse immunoglobulin g (IgG) variable region of
the heavy chain (VH) with an anti-4-hydroxy-3-nitr
ophenylacetyl (NPb) specificity
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From DNA to music, the translation is
ambiguous From music to DNA, the translation is
unambiguous
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Romantic Music
Nucleotides
six-frame translation
Six amino-acid sequences
BLAST against GeneBank
Molecular Homolog(s) of Romantic Music
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Alexander Scriabin 1872-1915 Etude, Opus 8, No. 2
(1894)
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Helicobacter pylori
Outer membrane protein HP1156
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Frederick Chopin, Nocturne. Opus 55, Number 1
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Frederick Chopin, Nocturne. Opus 55, Number 1
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Frederick Chopin, Nocturne. Opus 55, Number 1
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Modern Art and Science

• Art illustrates Science
• Art uses Scientific imagery
• Scientific imagery becomes Art
• Art uses Scientific principles
• Art interprets Science
• Art challenges Science
• Artistic insight precedes Science
• Science reconstructs Art
• Science analyzes Artists
• Science analyzes Art
• Science debunks Art Criticism

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Art illustrates Science
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Art uses Scientific imagery
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Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle The Garden of Delights Lu,
Jack and Carrie. 1998. Cibachrome print Max
Protetch Gallery, New York
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Jaq Chartier Blots and Dilutions. 2000 Acrylic,
ink, chemical stains and spray paint on
panel William Traver Gallery, Seattle
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Jaq Chartier. 2001. Relative Proof. Acrylic, ink,
spray paint on panel. Collection Adam Weintraub,
Rochester
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Lillian Warren. 2004. Oil on canvas. Negative
Space Gallery, Houston
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Lillian Warren. 2004. Oil on canvas. Negative
Space Gallery, Houston
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Lillian Warren. 2004. Oil on canvas. Negative
Space Gallery, Houston
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Eduardo Kac Genesis. 1999 Installation linked to
the Internet Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago
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Gregor Mobius RNA/DNA. 2001 Acrylic on canvas
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Gregor Mobius RNA/DNA. 2001 Acrylic on canvas
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Abigail Raynolds (OED) Mount Fear
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Scientific imagery Art
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Rosamond Wolff Purcell
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Catherine Chalmers Transgenic Mice Pigmented
Nude. 2000. C-print RARE Gallery, New York
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Catherine Chalmers Transgenic Mice Obese. 2000.
C-print RARE Gallery, New York
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Catherine Chalmers Transgenic Mice Curly Tail.
2000. C-print RARE Gallery, New York
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Marc Quinn (r). DNA portrait of Sir John Sulston
(l). DNA, alcohol, glass, paper. Saatchi
Collection